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Updated: June 27, 2025
Then Dick was on his feet again, but barely in time. For in the clamour and rushing fall of this wild figure, clad in grey flannel trousers and blue shirt, with lank black hair flying stiffly up and away from the savage mouth and blazing blue eyes, Ockley had leapt back out of reach.
Noble martyrs Literature has had, men who have sacrificed ease, comfort, and every earthly advantage for her sake, and who have shared with Henry Stephens the direst straits of poverty brought about by the ardour of their love. Such an one was a learned divine, Simon Ockley, Vicar of Swavesey in 1705, and Professor of Arabic at Cambridge in 1711, who devoted his life to Asiatic researches.
She remembered him crawling, at the acme of her terror, through the slit of the window; saving her from the Dutch woman; turning his back while she dressed; leaping like a heaven-sent devil over the stair-rail; fighting Ockley with his fists and refused to remember that same enemy brought utterly to an end of his enmity.
His object was to make his way as quickly as possible to "The Coach and Horses," his car, and safety. But he dared not move from this shelter, nor even stand upright, until he knew what Ockley intended. Already he had tasted the man's quality, and, with the girl on his hands, held him in healthy fear. "They've gone too far," he reflected, "to back out."
"Don't be a fool, Ockley. Better let him die than bring a sharp-witted medical practitioner to my house, to-day of all days." "If we have a death here in your house," Ockley retorted, "they'll want to know how and why and when. And 'no doctor called' and 'this shady Mr. Melchard' and all the damned things that always happen.
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